Rulon C. Allred

Rulon Clark Allred (* 1906, † May 10, 1977 ) was an American homeopath and chiropractor in Salt Lake City and President of the Apostolic United Brethren a Mormon fundamentalist group in Utah, Colorado and Arizona.

After Allred had initially turned away at a young age by the polygamous religious community of his father and grandfather, he has decided in its third decade of life as a result of an alleged vision to marry several wives. The decision is sometimes represented as the result of estrangement from his first wife, who had told the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, Heber J. Grant that she should leave her husband, and the common three children.

Allred took over soon in a polygamous community Short Creek (now Colorado City in Arizona) responsibility after their spiritual leader, Joseph White Musser, had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed. As Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle in 1953 prompted the " Short Creek raid" ( = Short Creek surprise attack ), Allred was arrested and convicted of bigamy. After his release, he continues his polygamous lifestyle but continued. As the leadership of Rulon Jeffs and conflicts with the belonging to a rival sect Lebaron family, which among other things by force wanted to gain control of several fundamentalist Mormon groups, intra-group tensions and eventually caused many divisions, Allred took the lead in one of the newly formed groups.

With age Allred concealed his polygamous beliefs less and less. Finally, he spoke openly of interviews that he shared the principles of plural marriage.

Rulon Allred had at least twelve women and was the father of twenty-five children. Although Allred appears to be very conservative, the group around him was yet far more moderate than the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day to Rulon and Warren Jeffs or led by Ervil LeBaron Community saints, from which he received death threats since the 60s.

On May 10, 1977, two dressed in a wig and sunglasses women Allred sought out in a suburb of Salt Lake City in his office. With handguns, they opened fire on him at once, and others present. The women were able to escape. Alone Allred was injured and died on the same day from his injuries. One of the perpetrators was later identified as Rena Chenoweth, one of the thirteen women of Ervil LeBaron.